Subj : Modems
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Mar 31 2023 18:28:00

 Ni> I remember US Robotics making internal modems that were still full
 Ni> hardware modems (when many internal modems were WinModems), but other than
 Ni> that, what made US Robotics modems stand out?  I had used a couple of

USR made their name with HST models. If'n I'm remembering right off the top
of my head, this gave your super fast assymetric transfer speeds.  It was
something like 9600/19200/38400 in the down direction with only something
like 2400/9600 up direction.  It utilised some of the extra bandwidth left by
using the lower speed to shoe horn more into the other direction.

By the time HST was done they were just another modem, everybody was doing
38.4 or 56.7k.

For what its worth there were more interesting modems out there, that were
also good for their time but kind of dead ends.  The 2400 Datacrafts with
MNP4/5 were like that.

Spec


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